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Let me preface this by saying that I don’t normally do
this. I’ve never willfully removed myself from a website or a
community that I find (or once found) enjoyable, and I’ve never
quit watching a show that I’ve become invested in. Truth is,
I loved RWBY, and I loved being a part of this fandom. But I
don’t anymore. I’ll split this blog into two sections,
addressing both entities and why they’ve become so intolerable to
me.

When I first started watching RWBY, I was delighted and
entranced by the sheer joy and quirkiness that it exuded. It
was fun, it was unique, and it was written by people who were truly
invested in it. You could see the love and hard work that
they were putting into every scene. They were good at it, and
they liked…

Ruby's memories show how much she remembers and clings to when
preserving life... and they match up one for one with screenshots
from the show. The artists traced over screenshots but also took
some liberties to show exactly how Ruby remembers those wonderful
moments.

In time I will likely upload all of the screenshots I took for
the video. But there's a total of 25 memories, two of them being
the Taiyang one that doesn't have a "matching moment" and Summer
Rose, who also doesn't. So that leaves me with 46 pictures to
upload, and I'll get around to it soon!

EDIT: I have uploaded most of the screenshots onto my "RVE
Comps" user page.

Simple as that. I still like the show but I've found other
places to discuss things, more varied opinions, and at this point
only thing I'm here for anymore is news updates. I'll pop in once
and awhile through Volume 7 since I made a bingo card, but I think
I'm done here. Nice meeting and talking with most of ya, so best of
luck to you. For now though, this is goodbye.

RWBY is a show that struggles mightily with establishing
relationships, developing characters and having protagonists engage
with one another. Several pairs almost never interact,
despite being part of a tight-knit team that supposedly does
everything together. Part of the reason for this is that too
much time is spent on shipbaiting.

This has been a problem since RWBY premiered, and has slowly
intensified over the years. Why have Ruby and Blake bond when
you can just tease the masses with some underdeveloped Flower Power
crap? Why develop Oscar when you can just have Blake and Yang
hold hands, tantalizingly, over and over? Why do anything
worthwhile when you can just feed lonely adolescents some angsty,
pseudo-romantic garbage to fuel…

I am of the firm opinion that skill is more valuable in a fight
than a good weapon, a huge aura pool, or an overpowered
semblance.

Each of the latter things are tools that all require skill to
use, just like in real life. The best thing about skill is that it
is a gift that never stop giving. No matter what, there is always
something to learn.

That's why hunters and huntresses beat the Grimm. They work hard
day and night to beat the Grimm. They have determination. Despite
being smaller, weaker, and more fragile than most elder Grimm, they
still succeed because they use their skills, together or apart.

This is a summary of the theory I had about aura having shear
thickening properties. The thread can be found
here: https://rwby.fandom.com/wiki/Thread:638683

I believe aura has shear-thickening properties. This means that the
viscosity of a non-newtonian fluid increases with pressure, like
oobleck (cornstarch and water). This means that with low speeds,
Aura can be passed through easily, but at extremely high speeds, it
acts like a solid.

Obviously, Aura is not actually a fluid, but by treating it as
having similar principles to shear thickening fluids, a lot can be
explained.

"Aura does not exhibit true non-newtonian properties, but it
does have a few similarities."- Phantom

"so grimm have eyes, huh? why didn't the nuckelavee stopped
moving and started looking anywhere? Keep in mind that this is
fiction. Nothing makes sense and you should know better. "-
Umbrellish.

This is the counterarguement. Some might consider this a very
excellent point. I do too, but that doesn't stop me from feeling
attacked and humiliated. That's why I'm going to prove him wrong
with one simple fact.

If the Grimm could not see, then how would they walk without
bumping into things like buildings or mailboxes? The only other
possibility I see is every Grimm having ecolocation.

What I believe is that Grimm have a sixth sense that allows them
to sense negative emotions in a manner similar to smell. Ren's
semblanc…

I feel frustrated because I don't quite understand most of
the people that scan the weapon and semblance forums, and
vice-versa.

People always accuse me of overthinking things, and I know they
mean well. But I can't help but feel attacked. Why can I accept the
fact that bolas weren't used to strangle people, but for people to
understand their OC's can't use their weapon to their full
potential in the RWBY world, let alone the real world? I just feel
like I'm letting a baby play next to a cliff if I don't correct
something.

Simple 10 commandments of weapons:

1) Size. If you have a rifle knife or an extending pistol spear,
then something's wrong. When either of these things happen, weapons
either become impossible to use in firearm or melee for…

My next video is a "part 2" to RWBY's Visual Evolution. This one
will only focus on how/why 2D assets are used. Out of everything I
put into the video, the coolest, to me, is a parallel that every
time the heroes approach a new setting for an arc (Beacon Academy,
Mistral, Atlas), the exact same shot composition is used. A 3D
airship flies in from the left toward a 2D asset of the location.
(The thing to the right was uploaded as a video clip but appears to
be a low-res image. whoops.)

EDIT: My second video, Every Time "Forever Fall" Music is in
RWBY V1-6, is now live! As it turns out, the person who reviewed
the copyright claim let it go through, but the way the wording
looked, it appeared as if my dispute wasn't accepted. So it's live!
It's an earlier version, so there's some things I changed to make
it better that aren't in this, but it is the fullest, completest
account of the leitmotif in video form that I can possibly have,
and I am so glad this is over.

I decided to make this video second because it is so, so much
quicker to do than RWBY's Visual Evolution, and it's another video
that somehow hasn't been made by anyone else yet - at least as far
as I know from scrolling through a bunch of searches as I looked
for s…

Dr. Merlot I think is potentially one of the most dangerous
villains in Remnant. He can modify Grimm into becoming larger and
stronnger than even their elder counterparts. Grimm even gain
entirely new abilities from the mutation, but what species of Grimm
do you think would be the most dangerous if Merlot got his hands on
them?

RWBY's look has evolved like crazy since Volume 1, and I'm in
the process of making a video on all the broad things that have
changed Volume by Volume. I'll upload the video hopefully within a
week, but here are some stills of what I've made so far.

There are comparison shots of this for every Semblance with a
visual cue, and yeah even environmental things to show how
environments have changed too. The video seems to be somewhere
between fifteen and twenty minutes long at the moment. Would you
like to see it when I'm done?

EDIT: More stills added to gallery

EDIT: Even more stills added to gallery. I'm almost done with
the video. Perhaps tomorrow I'll put the last clips in and finish
cleaning up the audio, then upload it to YouTube and leave a…

Blind Worms are large worm like Grimm creatures with a
giant mouth that appeared in "After the Fall" and the RWBY Chinese
game.

They are enormous worm-like Grimm capable of burrowing
underground and through the sands of Vacuo. They have a singular
red eye and a giant fanged mouth. These Worms can range from 6 feet
to as big as Flatback Sliders, and are built to be far faster when
traveling in sands. Like the King Taijitu, they have a head on each
end of their body

Their defenses include bone plates, hooks and acidic blood.
Their attacks include spikes for teeth and are capable spitting
acid.

So sometime when we're making original weapons or talking about
the weapons of canon characters, we talk and gush about teh
countparts IRL. So I made a little place for us to skip straight to
the gushing about real things that go bang, boom, and various other
onamontapeias of obliteration.

Finally got off my butt and made my Bingo card for Volume 7. It
was kinda hard to figure out what I wanted to put on it, so I ended
up just throwing things at it just to fill up the 24 squares.
Basically, it's a mix of hopes, predictions, and cynicism. It's
always so hard to figure out how I want to arrange everything.

I'm hoping Watts will actually do something since he's been
assigned to go to Atlas, after being so passive for the past few
volumes.

Still waiting for that Cheshire Cat character that Gray was so
nervous about.

Pleeeease, Dust stuff. We're in Atlas, we deserve some
confirmations and clarifications about Dust.

and an animated short that I don't know if we're allowed to talk
about.

" We're so excited to announce the upcoming
#RWBY comic series with @DCComics! The
series will be worked on by writer @EvilMarguerite
and artists @Mirkand and Arif Prianto." link

Press release from DC Including release schedule, writers and
artists

Writer Marguerite Bennett and
Artists Mirka Andolfo and Arif Prianto to Take
on RWBY Comic

The RWBY comics are set to launch digitally in late August,
while the gen:LOCK comics will launch in September. The two series
will alternate weekly, with two new digital chapters released every
month that will later be collected as monthly print issues. DC
Publisher and renowned comic …

I've been thinking about the villages that we saw in central
Mistral in Volumes 4 & 5. Team RNJR passed through 5 of them: The
unnamed village in The Next Step, Shion, Higanbana, Oniyuri and
Kuroyuri

Kuroyuri does not appear to have been part of the Kingdom of
Mistral, but was independent. Mistral police flights do not fly
over it as part of their patrol route, and it was only the 'smoke'
plume from the dead Nuckelavee that attracted by chance the
attention of a pair of airships. As well, the Nuckelavee was still
alive 10-12 years after the desctruction of Kuroyuri. I can
understand the village being destroyed, but if Kuroyuri was part of
Mistral I have trouble understanding why the Nuckelavee was not
hunted down and destroyed shortly after…

The airship landed, the blonde boy running to a trash can on the
dock and continuing to vomit. The group stepped out on the dock
looking at the towering, castle-like building before them. “Beacon
Academy,” Ivor stood in awe, “we finally made it.”

The group was ecstatic that they made it to the place that would
teach them about the thing they would do for the rest of their
lives. All except for Vulcan. Beneath the wrappings, he grimaced.
Another school, another chance to be harassed, he thought. Vulcan
had a hard time making friends, Turkis, Ivor, and Laurel, were low
key the only friends he had outside of his family. Frowning, he
thought back to an incident from his childhood. He was in fourth
grade at the time.

Long ago, before time had a name, there existed two brothers who
created the world. The older brother ruled over creation, light,
order, and destiny, while the younger brother commanded
destruction, darkness, chaos, and coincidence. One day, the older
brother created man, and gifted the world Remnant with a miraculous
substance known as dust. Man worshipped the older brother, their
creator, with great reverence. Unbeknownst to them, the younger
brother lurked in the shadows, cultivating anger for his brother,
as no one ever paid him any respect.

One day, the younger brother got an idea. He took a handful of
the dust, something man didn’t know existed, and corrupted it with
his power. The substance became known in legend as shadow dust, a
su…

The author of After The Fall is sharing one line from the
book each day until the book comes out on the 25th.

Day 1: "Of all the things listed in Velvet’s mental list of
'cons' about Vacuo, number one was the lack of anything to include
under 'pros.'"

Day 2: "More of the dark, deadly creatures poured into Beacon
with every passing hour, faster than they could be destroyed. The
monsters were the stuff of nightmares, all shadow and bone, fire
and fury."

Day 3: "The First-years had been at Beacon for barely a day,
and they were all about to die."

Day 4: "Fox wondered what Ozpin had been thinking when he
decided to throw a blind boy off a cliff."

Day 5: “Fortunately, I had this broken wagon,” Slate went on.
“I stayed with it and hoped for the best.…

But there have been some claims and criticisms made towards the
series that I thought I should address, some debunk. Some of these
criticisms I actually believed back when I rid the Volume 6
hatewagon for a bit.

So let’s start this list off

“The Brunswick Arc was filler!”

^^^

This one I generally don’t get.

...what exactly was filler about it? If it were filler, it would
have no connection to the main plot whatsoever when it does. Weiss
started to question the mission, Qrow was depressed, everyone
needed time to process the fact that Salem couldn’t be killed
before moving on. The only problem I have is that nobody seemed to
doubt the mission, only doing so under the influence of the Apathy,
b…

After Adam's loss at the Battle of Haven and his death at the
end of volume 6, a lot of people were pissed off. They claimed that
Adam had been nerfed, so that Yang and Blake could kill him for
Bumblebee-related reasons or something like that. Or, as one viewer
claimed, for a feminist agenda.

However, this bakes the question: was Adam actually nerfed? The
answer to that is quite simple, really. He wasn't. And there's
quite a bit of evidence to suggest he wasn't. But first of all, why
do people assume Adam was a badass, skilled warrior anyway?

I'm gonna start off by quoting Alhazad2003

I'd say a lot of people are still seething because they
thought Adam was more than he turned out to be, they bought into
his style and never noticed his lacking…

Ok, we all know about the allegations regarding Grow
Branwen's voice actor Vic Mignogna and sexual misconduct, and that
RT has cut all ties with him (can you blame them?), and made a
problem that is summed up with one simple question below.

No please, answer that, I'm really confused. I
have NEVER requested someone for their personal
opinion on something and then deliberately gotten into
aggression. Nah, y'all just get on my case, talk filth, and
then say I'm out of line. I'm really sick
and tired of it. PLEASE stop disputing with over
MY NOTIONS. You can agree with, or be wrong, ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°), I'm
joking, I never assume that I'm right, unless I have several pieces
of evidence to back me up on it.

Not to mention that no matter what I say, SOMEONE always has
something to argue with me on. Y'all need to try to be better.
And not everyone does this, I've met very nice people here, but a
majority of things I say here, there is alw…

In light of the increasing frequency of shipping discourse, I've
made a warning announcement thread, but it seems that
Fandom has removed the Highlight Thread function. Please see the
linked thread and keep in mind the civil behavior rule. Remember,
the rule applies to RWBY's crew as well as fellow wiki users.

Now I'm going to talk about the similarly designed ship seen in
V4E12, "No Safe Haven" that Yang sails to an unnamed port in
western Anima as part of her search for Raven. We don't know if
Yang boarded this ship in Patch, in Vale, or if she rode Bumblebee
across Eastern Sanus to a small port.

At first glance this ship looks the same as the Pride-class
ship, but it's not. A very similar design, but it's smaller. There
is no top deck with a bridge, there are eight large windows along
the lower hull instead of ten, and it looks like there is no
battery of side guns. It's possible that this ship travels only
through waters that are so regularly travelled that protection from
the Grimm is handled by naval forces of the Kingdoms, and other
than a…

For this blog post, I'm going to talk
about something that has never been covered before in RWBY.
Ships.

(Y'know, boats. Why, what did you
think I meant?)

As always, this is mostly non-canon,
based off of observations, real life, and some logic.

First off, I dislike calling it 'the
Ship', as it's called on the Wiki, so I'm going to refer to it as a
Pride-class ship. This is based on the reference in V4E12,
"No Safe Haven" with Yang holding a photo of a similar ship, with
her thumb partially covering the name 'Pride _____'. Names
like ''Pride of Mistral' or 'Pride of Vale' wouldn't
be that unusual in our world, so I'm going to run with it.

Pride-class ships are small
passenger vessels travelling the oceans of Remnant, connecting the
four kingdoms a…

Ok, I just started watching last week and made it to the end of
3. I know a lot of others have porbably asked this, but why kill
off Pyhrrra? She was in my opinion a great asset to the whole
group! They could have seriously injured her instead, coma, lost
the leg, life hanging in the balance and gotten the same result
from Ruby!! I have not done this before but with her death I A\M
DONE W THIS ANIME!! I usually will watch more most times when
things like this happen BUT NOT THIS TIME! They did not have to
kill her to get results, It was just plain STUPID!! I know A lot
feel like I do! We WERE LET DOWN!! I hope others stand with me and
do not watch this any further! The creators of this should be
ashamed of going that route, if they wanted …

However, I lost a massive amount of interest in the show at
certain points, with the final point being Pyrrha's Death. (I
personally felt that Pyrrha's Death, was a magum opus in how
to ignore good writing and more importantly, is an
example of "I'll make the character stupid for the sake of the
story" rather than the character naturally being that way as apart
of their personality.)

The show's writing was bleeding everywhere and the pacing
became a disaster. Characters became highly inconsistent or
were rushed or just cliche. And with SO MANY wasted
oppotunities for interesting character arcs. (Yang is a great
example of wasted potential, with having a compelling arc after
los…